RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This biography of Peter Paul Rubens, written by German art historian Hermann Knackfuss, is considered to be the most authoritative text on the artist since its publication. |
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... later on distinguished the famous son . After the generous woman had vainly tried for two years by personal and epistolary entreaties to secure her husband's liberty from Count Johann , 1 ) It was thus that the family of Rubens spelt ...
... later on distinguished the famous son . After the generous woman had vainly tried for two years by personal and epistolary entreaties to secure her husband's liberty from Count Johann , 1 ) It was thus that the family of Rubens spelt ...
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... later on be- came one of the civic authorities at Antwerp , where he made a name for himself ; whilst the other , who first saw the light on the 29th of June 1577 , on account of the date of his birth , received at the font the names of ...
... later on be- came one of the civic authorities at Antwerp , where he made a name for himself ; whilst the other , who first saw the light on the 29th of June 1577 , on account of the date of his birth , received at the font the names of ...
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... Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are in the Albertina at Vienna ( Fig . 9 ) . The excellent portrait of a Franciscan priest , now in the ...
... Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are in the Albertina at Vienna ( Fig . 9 ) . The excellent portrait of a Franciscan priest , now in the ...
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... later period ( Fig . 13 ) . He worked also at the Oratory of the Chiesa Nuova , completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have already seen , begon two years before . When however it was set up in its place , the light proved ...
... later period ( Fig . 13 ) . He worked also at the Oratory of the Chiesa Nuova , completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have already seen , begon two years before . When however it was set up in its place , the light proved ...
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... later as a pendant to the Elevation and which is likewise in the transept of the Antwerp Cathedral . It was commissioned in 1611 by the Rifle - corps - Guild for a sum of 2400 florins . The records of payment are still in existence ...
... later as a pendant to the Elevation and which is likewise in the transept of the Antwerp Cathedral . It was commissioned in 1611 by the Rifle - corps - Guild for a sum of 2400 florins . The records of payment are still in existence ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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